Lately, everybody is drawing animals. Which we only know from tv. And Herr Huber has made drawings of snow. We don't know yet whether we shall see any of that this winter. You can find this and other drawings in "Internazionale", a fortnightly Italian magazine which reprints international essays and short stories in Italian translations. Issue 674 comes fully illustrated, with drawings by Lorenzo Matotti, Francesca Ghermandi, Igort and many others.

Lately, everybody is drawing animals. Which we only know from tv. And Herr Huber has made drawings of snow. We don't know yet whether we shall see any of that this winter. You can find this and other drawings in "Internazionale", a fortnightly Italian magazine which reprints international essays and short stories in Italian translations. Issue 674 comes fully illustrated, with drawings by Lorenzo Matotti, Francesca Ghermandi, Igort and many others.

Hans Christian Andersen was born 200 years ago, but his stories are as fesh as ever. Hamelin, a cultural association from Bologna, Italy, has asked 10 artists to illustrate an Andersen book far away from children's book mainstream, namely David B., Blutch, Anke Feuchtenberger, Francesca Ghermandei, Markus Huber, Franco Matticchio, Lorenzo Mattotti, Fabian Negrin, Javier Olivares and Stefano Ricci. With their works the Roman publisher Orecchio Acerbo made an unusual Andersen book, bound in thick cardboard and printed in different two color shades.

Two expositions in one catalogue: The Hamelin project shows works by David B., Blutch, Anke Feuchtenberger, Francesca Ghermandei, Markus Huber, Franco Matticchio, Lorenzo Mattotti, Fabian Negrin, Javier Olivares and Stefano Ricci, each of them contributing four to six illustrations for one Andersen story. While in the Book published by Orecchio Acerbo (see above) the illustrations appear in two-color print, this catalogue reproduces every single original drawing as shown in the exposition. The second exposition,
curated by Bologna Children's Book Fair gives an overview over Andersen illustrations from various book projects published for the Andersen year 2005. The bilingual catalogue comes with excellent articles by Antonio Faeti and Emilio Varrà from Bologna University. The original exposition was held in Bologna, Italy, from April 13 to May 13, 2005.

To celebrate it's 20th anniversary the swiss comic magazine "Strapazin" has published a pretty little book "I am 20 and the World is Mine". 38 artists have realized a scenario by Noyau to create a continuing story. Markus Huber is one of them. The book is available directly from Strapazin.